<!DOCTYPE html>
<!-- approach #3: explicitly specify itemid to reference from branchOf 
result:
* Two LocalBusiness items linked to Organization with explicit URI
* One organization with a type and a name
-->
<html><head><title>Title</title></head><body>
<div id="about" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"
    itemid="http://example.org/">
  <meta itemprop="name" content="Organization X"/>
  <meta itemprop="url" content="http://example.org"/>
  <meta itemprop="sameas" content="http://example.org"/>
</div>
<div id="contact">
  <div id="branch_a" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness">
    <meta itemprop="name" content="Organization X Branch A"/>
    <link itemprop="branchOf" href="http://example.org/"/>
  </div>
  <div id="branch_b" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness">
    <meta itemprop="name" content="Organization X Branch B"/>
    <link itemprop="branchOf" href="http://example.org/"/>
  </div>
</div>
</body></html>
